Strength Quotes

Not just muscle and might, but the inner resolve that carries people through impossible situations.

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"Strength lies in collective refusal of the given order"
Marcuse, Herbert
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"Strength comes from recognizing your own complicity and refusing it"
Marcuse, Herbert
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"To be human is to resist the complete rationalization of human existence."
Horkheimer, Max
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"The body remembers what the mind is forced to forget."
Horkheimer, Max
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"To be singular is to resist the systematic reduction to the universal."
Horkheimer, Max
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"Strength emerges from the collective consciousness of a class struggling for liberation."
Lukács, György
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"Strength lies in the capacity to negate what oppresses, not in acceptance."
Marcuse, Herbert
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"The body is a plane of organization waiting to be deorganized."
Deleuze, Gilles
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"Strength is the capacity to create new becomings."
Deleuze, Gilles
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"Identity is always deceptive; it is society that imposes its forms upon us."
Adorno, Theodor
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"Identity is the mark of barbarism, not enlightenment; it is the refusal to think."
Adorno, Theodor
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"A body is defined not by its form but by what it can do."
Deleuze, Gilles
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"Strength lies in acknowledging our limitations."
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
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"Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself"
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."
Camus, Albert
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"There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn."
Camus, Albert
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"The only victory I can conceive is spiritual."
Camus, Albert
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"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."
Camus, Albert
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"What makes us unique is our capacity to resist and reinvent ourselves."
Foucault, Michel
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"To be responsible is to be singular and irreplaceable."
Derrida, Jacques
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"We inherit responsibility for what preceded us and what comes after."
Derrida, Jacques
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"Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself."
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"The body is not an obstacle to consciousness but its foundation."
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"Strength is measured not by what one possesses, but by what one can release."
Foucault, Michel
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"The human condition is radical freedom, and this freedom is irreducible and non-negotiable."
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"We create ourselves through our commitments; without commitment, we are nothing."
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"We must stand on our own two feet and fend for ourselves."
Popper, Karl
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"Strength comes not from dominating others, but from understanding ourselves."
Popper, Karl
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"To be virtuous is to have a unity of purpose throughout one's life."
MacIntyre, Alasdair
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"A virtue is a human quality the possession of which tends to enable us to flourish."
MacIntyre, Alasdair